Seven American records were set (including one tied) Saturday, pushing the three-day meet total to twenty-four (24) including four world records.
 
Rohl, who represented Team USATF in the race walk at 1992, 1996 and 2000 Olympics, defended her 2019 800m title in 2:23.26, while breaking her own previous American mark of 2:25.71 in Landover, Maryland, June 6. Rohl was pushed hard by Alisa Harvey (Unattached / Manassas, Virginia), 55, taking the lead with 250 meters to go. Harvey, a Masters Hall of Famer who competed in three World Indoor Championships and was an Olympic Trials qualifier, was second in 2:28.25.
 
Rick Becker (Club Northwest / Selah, Washington), 66, set an American record in the men’s 65-69 10,000m in 37:16.46.
 
Lisa Veneziano (Unattached / Fenton, Michigan), 56, set an American record in the women’s 55-59 10,000m in 38:42.16.
 
Robert Whilden Jr. (Unattached / Houston, Texas), 86, broke the American record in the men’s 85-89 100m in 16.18.
 
Masters Hall of Fame Gloria Krug (Philadelphia Masters / New Oxford, Pennsylvania), 90, established an American record in the women’s 75-94 javelin with a throw of 37-5/11.40m. 
 
Masters Hall of Famer Florence Meiler (Sprinticity / Shelbourne, Vermont), 87, won two more individual titles in the women’s 85-89 age division Saturday, while tying for first in the high jump to push her three-day total to nine victories. She captured the triple jump at 16-2.50 (4.94m) and won the 100m in 23.75.
 
Meiler and Christel Donley (Colorado Masters Track & Field / Colorado Springs, Colorado), 86, tied the American record in the high jump at 3-0.50/0.93m.
 
Tami Graf (Potomac Valley Track Club / Lusby, Maryland), 85, won two individual events Saturday in the women’s 85-89 age group, starting off the morning by setting her second American record of the meet, in the 10,000m in 1 hour, 36 minutes, 39.48 seconds. She came back to win the 800m in 7:33.34. 
 
Masters Hall of Famer Nolan Shaheed (So Cal Track Club / Pasadena, California), 72, the famed jazz musician who has played the lead trumpet for Stevie Wonder and the late Marvin Gaye and Aretha Franklin, won the men’s 70-74 800m in 2:48.58.
 
Dixon Hemphill (Potomac Valley Track Club / Fairfax Station, Virginia), the oldest competitor in the meet at 96 years old, won the men’s 95-99 100m (1:17.12). 
 
With 165 of 249 events scored, the So Cal Track Club leads the combined club scoring with 426 points followed by the Potomac Valley Track Club at 307. A record 174 clubs are competing in the meet.
 
So Cal Track Club leads the men’s division team scoring with 275 points, while the Potomac Valley Track Club owns a nine-point lead in the women’s division over the Philadelphia Masters and So Cal Track Clubs, 160-151.
 
Full results can be found here live.finishtiming.com
 
The meet concludes Sunday and is open to the public, while also available live on USATF.TV+
 
Sunday’s competition starts at 6:30 a.m. with the men and women’s 10,000-meter race walk.  

AMERICAN RECORDS SET SATURDAY

Women’s 55-59 10,000m — Lisa Veneziano, unattached 38:42.16
 
Women’s 85-89 10,000m — Tami Graf, Potomac Valley Track Club, 1:36:39.48
 
Women’s 55-59 800m — Michelle Rohl, Greater Philadelphia TC, 2:23.26
 
Women’s 90-94 Javelin — Gloria Krug, Philadelphia Masters, 37-5/11.40m
 
Men’s 65-69 10,000m — Rick Becker, Club Northwest, 37:16.46
 
Men’s 85-89 100m — Robert Whilden Jr., unattached, 16.18
 
#(Tied) Women’s 85-89 high Jump — Florence Meiler, Sprinticity and Christel Donley, Colorado Masters Track & Field, 3-0.50/0.93m
 
Contributed by Mike Mahon

Photo by Ka’deem Wynn